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protamine-2; sperm protamine-P2; sperm histone P2; contains: basic nuclear protein HPI1; contains: basic nuclear protein HPI2; contains: basic nuclear protein HPS1; contains: basic nuclear protein HPS2; contains: sperm histone HP4; sperm protamine P4; contains: sperm histone HP2; sperm protamine P2; P2'; contains: sperm histone HP3; sperm protamine P3; P2'' (PRM2)
Function:
- protamines substitute for histones in the chromatin of sperm during the haploid phase of spermatogenesis
- they compact sperm DNA into a highly condensed, stable & inactive complex
Structure: belongs to the protamine-P2 family
Compartment: nucleus
Expression: testis
General
protamine
Properties
SIZE: entity length = 102 aa
MW = 13 kD
COMPARTMENT: cell nucleus
CELL: spermatozoa
WITHIN: testis
MOTIF: basic region
Database Correlations
OMIM correlations
UniProt P04554
Pfam PF00841
Entrez Gene 5620
Kegg hsa:5620
References
- UniProt :accession P04554
- Entrez Gene :accession 5620